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I want to try one more time to get windows 2000Pro and mandrake 9.0 both on my main machine, I have found tons of stuff on dual booting on the net but nothing really shows/tells me what I need to know.
You have come to the right place
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I want to have 10G for linux, and 20G for windows (plus or minus)
first: should I bother trying to partition my HD or let setup do it automatically (linux),some things I have found say partition yourself and some say let Linux do it
Do it yourself. With mandrake, my experience is that it's bloody easy to simply make them partitions and mount them wherever you want them.
Even the first time I used that repartitioning tool, it was a piece of pie
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second: I would Install windows first correct?
Indeed, windows does not give a penny about ANY other OS (even if you would dual boot two versions of windows ... but what moron would have that?
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and puts merely the entry 'windows' into your MBR. (Or somewhere else? Correct me if I'm wrong, folks ...)
After you installed windows, install linux, use lilo or grub whatever and overwrite the sucker, and you have dual boot.
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third: how do I want to partition my hd properly
[/boot][/mnt/windows][/][swap][/home]
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would that be correct, or is something misplaced or missing? I am only asking because I had problems installing before and believe it to be because the boot loader was improperly installed or in the wrong place.
I have no idea, sorry. I always did what I liked best and it always worked fine for me ... if my inproper partitioning causes my linux to run slower, wtf, it can't go slower than this ... sigh
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If this is wrong, please help me out, TIA
Dj
Edit: Is it possible to dual boot with Windows 2000 under NTFS?
Maybe it's even mandatory, because I once tried to dual boot a machine with mandrake and win2000, and
win2000's setup simply did not want to install to the fat32 partition I made for it. Bitch.
It would work on NTFS, on the other hand ...
